Charles,
>When and where did you get the floppy images? There was a critical
>[...]
>if wd.c is prior to version 1.84.2.6, try a later version.
He used the boot floppies announced to current-users on Monday
(was it Monday?, anyway the most recent set). The 0.9 floppies caused
a similar disaster.
My OS was rebuilt from a SUP of current on Saturday (15th Oct)
and has sys/i386/isa/wd.c version 1.84.2.7 (sys/i386/stand/wd.c
version 1.3)
labelling disk wd0...overwriting disk with DOS partition label (n):
> which if you respond with `y' goes immediately to the mkfs
stage.
> Now, oddly enough, NetBSD has trashed the partition table,
fips says (including the Error):
>That's hardly surprising, since you told it to.
:-)
Yes, I know. My point was the floppy kernel has already done
something to the disk such that this time round it thinks it's about
to overwrite a DOS partition table (it didn't give this message the
first time round).
Cheers,
Ian
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